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Welcome to Virtual Horizon's home page for all Aviation Friends.
Welcome to Virtual Horizon's home page for all Aviation Friends.
Bush Plane Photo Gallery
Gallery2 Goose & Beech 18 & B206.
Gallery4 Twin Otter Slide Show.
Gallery6 Your Photographs. Sun Express.
Gallery7 Your Photographs. Ecotrust Beaver.
Gallery11 Irian Jaya. Pinky and the Chief!
"Oh, the life of an 'airy assed bush pilot", as the English would say.
"Oh, the life of an 'airy assed bush pilot", as the English would say.
News & Views
Tragedy in the Maldives. December 03rd, 1999.
Warning to Pilots about Eyas Air in Dubai. April 10th, 2000.
Your Stories
Three great short stories by Mike Kemper.
Here's an "I learned from that" flying narrative from Bruce Bowles.
Two chapters out of the book Fly Yellow Side Up by Garth Wallace.
Click on the images to call up larger
photographs. 
Photograph by "Jimbo" James Pearce.
Job Listing!
Listing as of
April, 2000: Pan African Airlines will be looking for an
experienced floatplane pilot to work in Nigeria. Send your updated resumes
here to Virtual Horizons.
Maldivian Air Taxi is an excellent outfit to work for. They can have anywhere up to 16 Twin Otters working at any one time.
Most of their hires come from Ken Borek out of Calgary, but you can call the Chief Pilot Ken Simpkins for further information at 960 315201 or fax 960 315203.To apply for
Trans Maldivian Airways (ex-Hummingbird) fax your
resume to the Chief Pilot Frank Henessey at 960 323161.To apply for Sun Express
contact them at Phone 960 320001 for more information or fax your resume to 960 320007.If you are looking to work overseas you might consider Zimex. They are currently working in Angola and Algeria. You must have at least 500 hours PIC on type and a current PPC for the DH6 Twin Otter, or 50 hours on type and a current PPC for the PC6T Pilatus Porter to apply. They also require a current instrument rating. Contact info@zimex.ch to obtain further application information.
This Caravan was the original guppy that sunk in the Maldives.
Back in Canada now, it's still going strong.
Photograph by Rich Hulina.
Aviation Friends Directory
Helicopters! Some
of the most exciting and envious flying in Northern Canada. Check out the Steve Miller home page. Great
photos now in place with a July '99 update!
Churchill and the Seal River Heritage Lodge. The last episode to
The Fly-in Pancake Breakfast, and where we meet
our hosts Mike and
Jeanne Reimer. Ringed seals and Inuit tent
rings. Polar bears and beluga whales.
We have it all! Including the pancakes.
Slate
Falls Airways of Sioux Lookout, Ontario has provided us
with some bright images of their hard working
Caravan.
An Orange Caravan float! Sounds like something
cool for a hot summer.
Robert
S. Grant
Writer, photographer, pilot. Order your personal
copy of
Bush Flying: The
Romance of the North
or a copy of his new book: Great Northern Bush Planes
Robert
R. Taylor
Photographer, writer, and a friend to many bush
pilots.
Find out more about his photography books of
Northern Canada.
The Edge of the Arctic:
Churchill and the Hudson Bay Lowlands.
Virtual North
Explore Virtual North's incredible world of
Canadian Fishing Resorts, Lodges,
and Adventure Tours. Find a place to fish, or
find a place to fly,
in this labyrinth of useful links and
information.
To order your personal copy of the 300
Best Aviation Web Sites book
click on the image above.
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Last modified on April 24th, 2000.
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